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Righting The Titled Scale: Expansion Of Artists' Rights In The United States, Colleen P. Battle
Righting The Titled Scale: Expansion Of Artists' Rights In The United States, Colleen P. Battle
Cleveland State Law Review
This Note focuses on the expansion of artists' rights in the United States, specifically the moral rights of paternity and integrity. It explores the history of judicial denial of moral rights and the attempt to gain protection through traditional causes of action. The Note then analyzes barriers to adoption of the moral rights doctrine, with emphasis on the challenge to traditional property concepts. The California Art Preservation Act of 1980 and the 1984 Artists' Authorship Act of New York are discussed and evaluated. This Note recommends adoption of the California statute as the model for future artists' rights legislation and …
The Film Collector, The Fbi, And The Copyright Act, Francis M. Nevins Jr.
The Film Collector, The Fbi, And The Copyright Act, Francis M. Nevins Jr.
Cleveland State Law Review
We are presently in the early middle stages of a media revolution which will reach its climax when films, in one form or another, will be found in people's homes and under consumers' control in much the same way as books and phonograph records. Although the availability of home videotaping equipment represents a giant step forward in the process, the revolution began long before the invention of the Betamax. For well over twenty years hobbyist film collectors, currently between 20,000 and 120,000 in number, have been purchasing sixteen and thirty-five millimeter prints of both copyrighted and public domain films, and …